Jimmy Kimmel still has his teeth sunk into President Donald Trump.
On the Tuesday, Oct. 7, episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the comedian called out Attorney General Pam Bondi for refusing to answer questions during a Senate hearing about not releasing the so-called Epstein files, or evidence of crimes involving convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the FBI and Justice Department’s possession, after repeatedly promising to do so.
“There were a lot of questions about the Epstein files; there were no answers about the Epstein files,” Kimmel said.
He then showed a clip of former prosecutor and Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asking Bondi if she knew whether the FBI had found photos Epstein circulated of Trump with “half-naked young women,” with the attorney general responding: “You sit here and make salacious remarks, once again, trying to slander President Trump, left and right …”
After the clip, Kimmel said: “Didn’t hear the word ‘no’ there, did you?”
Kimmel then replayed video of Whitehouse repeating the question as Bondi rolls her eyes before he asks, “You don’t know anything about that?” Bondi then responds with silence, which Whitehouse took as a no.
“Did you eat the Polaroids yourself, attorney general?” Kimmel quipped.
He then played Bondi’s response to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin asking why she had not produced Epstein’s client list, in which the attorney general said she had not reviewed the list and had other files waiting on her desk.
“(She) had other things to do. ‘Do you want Bigfoot making your kid trans? No! Let me do my job,'” Kimmel joked.
Kimmel continued: “One thing we know for sure is that Donald Trump doesn’t want us to see these files, which to me is all you need to know. I mean, you walk in on your teenager, he suddenly pulls up the covers and slams his laptop shut. I think you have a pretty good idea of why. You don’t need to look at his browser history.”
USA TODAY has reached out to the White House for comment.
The segment followed Kimmel poking fun at Trump after the comedian earned a higher approval rating, amidst the president mocking Kimmel for his TV ratings. Kimmel has been going particularly hard at the president, saying Trump tried to “cancel” him following his temporary suspension from the air, after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission pressured ABC to take action and Trump celebrated the move.
“You almost have to feel sorry for him. He tried his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show,” he responded in a monologue during his return to air following ABC’s suspension of his late-night show. “That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this, now.”
